Shore



; March 31. 1925.

1,531,859 L. H. 'GARLINGHOUSE snonn Filed April 19, 1920- Patented Mar. 31, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT orrlcs.

LESLIE HOLMES GARLINGHOUSE, OE ASPINWALL, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO BLAW-KNOX COMPANY, A CORPORATION NEW JERSEY.

SHORE.

Application filed April 19, 1920. Serial No. 374,8 25,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LESLIE HOLMES GAR- LINGHOUSE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Aspinwall, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shores, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shores and similar false Work members, useful, for example, in supporting forms for concrete work.

One of the primary objects of my invention is the provision of improved apparatus of this character whereby I am not only enabled to cut down the amount of supporting structure and, therefore, reduce the carpentry work required, but also to readily compensate for the differences indimension which are alwayspresent in the rough lum ber used for such purposes, ensuring the support of the form parts at the proper level. 1

Still another object of my invention consists in-the provision of apparatus of the characteristics specified which is so constructed that the taking down'of the forms is greatly facilitated.

The foregoing, together with such other objects as may hereinafter appear, or are incident to my invention, I obtain by means of a construction which I have illustrated in preferred form in the accompanying drawings, wherein? Fig. 1. is a perspective view illustrating the application of my improvements in the erection of a concrete floor with forms such as shown in ,my copending application, Serial No. 373,999, filed April 15, 1920; and Fig. 2 is a perspective of one of the shores shown in Fig. 1, drawn on an enlapged scale to more clearly illustrate the parts thereof.

. My invention will' be best understood from a brief description of a portion of the floor system as shown in Fig. 1. The shores 7 are preferably arranged in rows providing bays A, B, C, etc. The shores are tied and braced in any preferred manner as by the bracing 8 of temporary character. Pairs of ledgers 9 andlO are supported in amannor to be hereinafter described on the shores and extend transversely of the bay or bays, the ledgers being of any desired length. The ledgers support form sections such as the panels or'pans 11, which may orjmay not be secured totheir respective ledgers.

What I term permanentpanels 12cooperate;

with the panels 11 to constitute the floor form and these are supported directly on top of the shores 7 so as to be independent of the other panels. The panels 12'are also supported at their edge portions. by the ledgers. Their construction is shown and described in the aforesaid copending application. 1 I y In general, the method of operation is as follows: The fOrms'are set-up, as set forth, the concrete is poured, and a relatively short timethereafter the ledgers are detached and dropped and 'withthem the panels 11', the permanent panels l2 being left inposition to support the concrete until it has thoroughly set. The ledgers and panels 11 are then set 1 up a-new'point of'use and the work is thus carried out progressively. If ledgers of short length. areemployed, they and the pan-. els directly supported thereby, may be taken down in units and shifted and set up as such, in which casethepanels are preferably detachably secured to the ledgers.

Referring now to Fig. 2, it will be seen that each of theshores 7 consists of a post which is provided at the top, on each of two opposite sides, with levelindicating means comprising, in the present instance, a stop block 13 the depth of which. is preferably equal to the depth of the panelsminus the thickness of the sheetof metal out of which the panels are formed. When'the postsare of wood, I prefer to nail the stop blocks in on, such wedges in turn carrying the ledgers 9 and 10,

The ledgers may vary considerably in v width and the Wedges are utilized to drive the upper edge of the ledgers tightly against the blocks 13 so as to properly fix the level of the lodgers with respect to the'top of the shores. Thus the blocks 13 serve not only as fixed level indicators for adjustment of the ledgers 9 to bring their upper edges to the desired height on the shores 7 but alsoasstops for positively preventing the ledgers from being raised too high, and as securing means for holding the ledgers tightly fast. Thus the floor form sections 1 1 are separately adjusted relatively to the various shores 7, to adjust and level the sections;

themselves to the proper height. Each post- A is providedwitha' pair of buttons ldprefer ably in the form of arms pivoted tothe post by means of the bolts 17. When these but tons are swung to horiiontal position they will clear the ledgers and these can-be removed by loosening or knocking out the Wedges 15. When the buttonsor arms 16 are in vertical position the-upper" ends there of will servetolaterally positiomthe-l'edger's, cooperating with thesh'oi-e's 7 themselvest'o prevent accidental displacements; The arms 16 are preferably pivoted nearer to one end than the other so'that they willnorma'lly" occupy a vertical position if the bolts 17 sli'oiild work toolo'os'e". I

'The osts are independently adjusted to the proper floor" level or height, 1ess1fl'1e thickness of the sheet metal" plate fr'om which ehe' anels are made, by means of the wedges 1'8 which are carried on the sill 19-.

It will be'u'nder'stood that by this-arrangement theledgers are supported so asto be easil taken down, and} it isunnecessar t'o do any fitting for elevation, because the wedges 15 will compensate for any'va'riat'ion in dimension: There areno'partstobe taken off; and theonly Work involve'd in" using the for'ms is the manualwork invol ved in} setting Iipth'e parts and dri'vi'ng'the wedg'es to the roper points. One set of form parts can be taken down without interference with ad j acent parts; and where a unit arrangement is employed the units may also be taken down without interference".

' 1 1e buttons are sufiicie'ntly broadtocovei adjacent ends of two stringers, which enables me to use short stringers extending only from shore to shore, if desired;

I claim:

1. A shore member; the like having level-indicating means for cooperating directly with another form sustaining falseWork member, in combination with means for supporting sucli falseworlr member from the shore variable to adjust it to said indicating means;

2. A shore member for form support and the like having a level stop for a form sue: taining false Work member, in comli inatioii with means for supporting such false Work for form support and" sustaining falsevvork member, incombination With means for; supporting such falsevvork member from the shore variable to adjust it to said indicating means, and means cooperating with the shore to prevent displacement of such falsework member from its said supporting means.

4. ,A shore member for form supportand thelik'e'pro'vided' with a of stops'spaced apart one above the other to" permit or the" introduction of a" false Wtiik-foffn sustain iiig member between them, in combination With means cocpera't-ing with the lower stop for driving suchfalse work member against the upper stop.

5; n shoremember'forform support and the like rovided with a paiaofstops spaced one above the otherto permit of the introduction .of a false Work form sustainwith means cooperating with the lower stop for driving such falsework member against theu'pperstop, and a button for preventing displacement of suclr false-Work member.

6. A shoremember for from support and the like having level indicatin'g means for cooperating directly witha' false WOIkform sustainingmember, in combination with meansfof supporting such false work mem ber from the shore variable to adjust such false Work memberto? said level indilcating means; and means for also adjusting the shore itself, with" the parts aforesaid-,- to the proper height.

7. A shore member affording support for a floor form section on its top and having fixed" level indicating. means for cooperating directly with a' floorform ledger, and means for supporting such ledger from the shore variable to adj List the ledger vertically with reference to said indicating means and bring the upperedge of the ledger to the desired height on the shore; j

8. The combination of a form section, a false Work member for carrying a cooperating form" section, a shore for supporting the first-mentioned form section provided with level-indicating means for cooperating directly with said false Work member, and

means on the shore for supporting said false Work and cooperating with those sections aforesaid to constitute the floor form, means for independently adjusting various shores to the proper heights, so as to support the floor level, and means for separately adjusting the supporting false Work of said other form sections against the indicating means of the various shores, and thereby automatically adjusting and levelling thesections themselves to the proper height.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name.

LESLIE HOLMES GARLINGHOUSE. 

